[CentOS-virt] How do I reduce a disk size of a particular VM?

Poh Yong Hwang yongsan at gmail.com
Fri Aug 27 05:10:07 EDT 2010


Hi,

But I would like the diskspace to be release to the hardware node so that i
can create another VM as my hardware node is running out of diskspace. I
presume that using Gpart only reduce the diskspace on the VM but it will not
be release to the hardware node?

Thanks!
YongSan

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Victor Padro <vpadro at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Poh Yong Hwang <yongsan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > As per subject, is there a way to reduce diskspace for a VM. I have a VM
> > with 200GB but would like to reduce the diskspace to 100GB.
> > Please advise.
> > Thanks!
> > Yongsan
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> Perhaps shriking the partition using gparted inside the VM?
>
> Otherwise I can't figure out how to shrink a raw, qcow file under KVM
> for example...
>
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